911 CARES Activation - MO

May 18, 2006

This is a 911 CARES Activation. Please add Helen Ebers to your prayers

today and pass this to fellow dispatchers. We will post any updates to

Here is the note from their dispatch center: Three weeks ago, my

senior dispatcher at Ralls County 911in New London, MO, was treating

with antibiotics what we thought was going to be her yearly bout with

bronchitis when things suddenly turned very nasty. It turned into

pneumonia, she collapsed, was taken to the hospital where they found a

collasped lung and by morning she was in septic shock. The sepsis still

continues to be a problem, and she has been in an induced coma for three

weeks today. The third day she was in the hospital the doctors called

in her family and a priest to give her last rites. They lost her twice

but she is still hanging in and fighting every thing that's thrown at

her. They put in a trach and feeding tube last Thursday and tried

bringing her out of her coma, but were unable to do so. Her blood

pressure is very eratic and Monday of this week they again pronounced

she couldn't make it through the day. In the afternoon they put a tube

in her gall bladder to help drain off infection, and that night she was

up and then down as far as her survival rate from the doctor's

standpoint. They just don't understand her faith and all the strength

that the entire community has gained through prayer. Once again she

pulled through despite the doctor's predictions. Every time we have had

a request from 911cares, Helen always made sure to include these

requests in her prayer chains and in her personal prayers. We would

like for all of her fellow dispatchers to return the favor and put her

in their prayers so she can beat this terrible illness. Thank you so

much.

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